Jantien Smit Quotes & Sayings

I want the real deal whatever that means and whatever it takes to get there so I've been exploring.. — Chuck Smith

For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also. — Cassandra Clare

Eliot had no idea where he was going, but he'd read enough to know that a state of relative ignorance wasn't necessarily a handicap on a quest. It was something your dauntless questing knight accepted and embraced. You lit out into the wilderness at random, and if your state of mind, or maybe it was your soul, was correct, then adventure would find you through the natural course of events. It was like free association - there were no wrong answers. It worked as long as you weren't trying too hard. — Lev Grossman

I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears - Ah, she doth depart. — C.D. Reiss

So the poor translator must not just go back and forth between two languages, but if he is worthy of his calling must shift between two selves, with all the perils of this induced schizophrenia. — Gregory Rabassa

In human closeness there is a secret edge,
Nor love nor passion can pass it above,
Let lips with lips be joined in silent rage,
And hearts be burst asunder with the love.
And friendship, too, is powerless plot,
And so years of bliss with noble tends,
When your heart is free and known not,
The slow languor of the earthy sense.
And they who strive to reach this edge are mad,
But they who reached are shocked with anguish hard -
Now you know why beneath your hand
You do not feel the beating of my heart. — Anna Akhmatova

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb - for we have no word to speak about it. — Thomas Carlyle

He can barely stand it when he wastes his own time; for someone else to waste it is unconscionable. — David Levithan

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation. — Kathryn Stockett

Following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive. — William F. Buckley Jr.